Genetics
Photo by Braňo on Unsplash Genetic science has come on in leaps and bounds in…
Category: Bee Breeding and Genetics
When you look into bee breeding and genetics you quickly realise how challenging it can be. Bees mate on the wing and queens mate with multiple drones. Controlling both the maternal and paternal lines is very tricky with honey bees.
Apis Musings by Walrus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apis_mellifera_mellifera,_06.jpg I've been thinking about bees and beekeeping. Most people who know me have figured…
Mating Mathematics
Math or Maths? In 2005 some researchers studying matings in the Hope Valley (England) found…
Better Bees
Mike Palmer's Cell Builders Humans (and walruses) are part of the natural world. We are…
Bee Breeding: Life, uh…finds a way
Life finds a way It's a dog's life I have always struggled with the idea that there are…
A Legendary Bee has Died
In the Winter of 2017, I met Murray McGregor, owner of Denrosa Apiaries, based in…